Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — A Ductor’s Diary. [ARTICLE]

A Ductor’s Diary.

A pocket diary picked up in the streets of a neighboring city would seem to indicate, from the following choice extracts, that the owner was a medical man: ■ ■ “Kase 230. Mary An Perkins, Bisues, washwoman. Sickness in her hed. Fisik some blue pls, a soaperifik; age 52. Ped me one dollar, 1 kuarter bogus. Mind get good kuarter and mak her tak me fisik. “Kase 231. Tummes Krink; Bisnes, Nirishman. Lives with Pady Molony what keeps a dray—Sikness digg in ribs and tow blak eyes. Fisik to drink my mixter twict a day of sasiperily beer and jellop, and fish ile, with asifedity to make it taste fisiky. Bubed his face with kart grese liniment, aged 39 years of age. Drinked the mixter and wuddent pay me bekase it tasted nasty, but the mixter’H work his innards I reckon. “Kase 232. Old Misses Boggs. Aint° got no bisnes, but has plenty of money. Sikness all a humbug. Gav her sum of my celebrated .“Dipseflorikefi,” which she sed she drank like cold tea — which it was too. Must put sumthing in it to make her feel sik and bad. The Old Woman has got theroks.”—Sanitarian.